HTC sued for "ChaCha" trademark infringement

0.phoneArena25 Feb 2011, 21:47posted on

HTC is being sued by ChaCha Search, Inc. for use of the "ChaCha" name in their upcoming Facebook-centric device; as ChaCha Search is a primarily mobile-based business, they'll likely gain an injunction or settlement...

ChaCha.com is just using this as an opportunity to profit off of one of the biggest phone manufacturers in the game. Its not about ethics b/c if it were they would be more interested in the possible exposure that they would receive by being similarly named. a lawsuit is a more definite route to a payday for ChaCha.com which i've never heard of. can't say i blame them tho...if its infringement, its infringement. if someone hits my parked car and barely knicks it im most definitely trying to get PAID!!! time to Jerry McGuire up HTC & show them the money.

Actually, in this day and age where there are more lawyers then money in the system, I am truly shock the mobile industry hasn't had to deal with this up to now. Get in the headlines, get your name out there, maybe get a free extra couple of bucks you haven't earned. Nope, cannot figure out why Lawyers have bad names anymore.

A lot of these trademark lawsuits are frivolous but HTC failed on this one. Why would you choose to name your phone after a company that has a (primarily) mobile presence?

It's not like ChaCha is an unknown company. They have reached 17 million unique visitors to their site and have answered over a billlion questions since their inception (primarily via SMS, mind you). They've even passed Google in terms of text-based mobile search. They're basically the free version of KGB.

I don't think monetary damages are warranted, but hopefully this will force HTC to change the name of the phone to something better.

Come on ... I totally believe in protecting what is yours- but the name CHACHA is this web sites and so no one else can use it? REALLY?? A few years ago, Alamo rent-a-car tried to sue to keep the Alamo Bowl from "infringing" on their name too. Fox News attempted to sue to keep "Fair and Balanced" off the title of a book. And now Cha-cha belongs lock stock and barrel to this web site? I hope the makers of the actually dance are still around. They might have a case.

Its a dance. Seven hundreds of thousands of dancers make reference to the chacha, they are not talking about the search engine nor incidentally a phone. The search engine has no case. If anything the judge should rule the search engine made a bass choice of its name. They mights as well have called it 10% cream.

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